Did you know I wrote a sci-fi fantasy novel called The Clim and you can get the whole thing as a nine hour audio book read by this guy over at the Patreon shop.

Patreon.com slash small bean slash shop.

Robert Brockway calls it weird, heartbreaking,

and very, very funny, and Daniel O'Brien

calls it quite possibly Michael Swam's masterpiece. You can find a three hour free sample

by digging through the feed for an episode called The Clim Audio Book, Mike's

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patreon.com slash small beans slash shop.

Hey listen Listen. Well, it's. Welcome, everyone, everyone back to another episode of One Up'smanship.

That's right, I'm doing the straight greeting intro, a thing we almost never do on

the show.

That's okay. Yeah, it's okay. No, we're not bad. I didn't think it bum you out or anything.

You don't have to be brilliant and you write in comedy at every day.

I thought I'd phone this episode in entirely, which is exactly how I thought I'd get us started. We are here again

to talk about one of your favorite real-time strategy games a genre that has been woefully

neglected on this podcast and we're trying to fix it on the show

but it's not even that represented in life I would say in terms of tight yeah you're

right about that it's like a small edge you should now should know behind the scenes, Mike and I

were having a long discussion about which real time

strategy games we should cover and did come back to this.

And because of that, we decided

to bring back our illustrious guest who was here for the first Starcraft conversation.

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